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Le Nez du Café

This beautiful box of liquid aromatic solutions is the perfect dinner-party toy, albeit a relatively pricey one. The box contains thirty-six vials, each designed to represent one of the thirty-six most common aromas in coffee, both positive and negative (the latter the result of defects). Each vial has a number, and after smelling it you can have a go at guessing which aroma it is, detailed in the accompanying booklet. As with all such olfactory tasks, you get a lot better with practice. It is a brilliant game to play with a group of friends and it can be illuminating to see how differently people interpret the same smell when there are no visual or textural clues. The kit is used as an integral part of the Q Grader qualification. The same company makes similar boxes for the worlds of wine and whisky.